David Boyce wrote:
> At 11:30 AM 1/31/01 -0500, John Porter wrote:
>
> >Huh? exec() works! At least on some versions of Windows.
>
> It "works" in the sense that it passes the arguments to the exec() in the
> Windows CRTL. Unfortunately the underlying Windows exec has
> non-traditional, to p
At 11:30 AM 1/31/01 -0500, John Porter wrote:
>Huh? exec() works! At least on some versions of Windows.
It "works" in the sense that it passes the arguments to the exec() in the
Windows CRTL. Unfortunately the underlying Windows exec has
non-traditional, to put it politely, semantics. It beh
> At 11:00 -0500 01.31.2001, David Boyce wrote:
> >On UNIX it's straightforward: "exec $^X ,$0, @ARGV" out of a BEGIN clause.
Linux isn't UNIX:
$ cat argv.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print "$^X\n";
print "$0\n";
$ ./argv.pl
perl
./argv.pl
where's perl? :-(
[and anyone who assumes that perl is the
At 11:00 -0500 01.31.2001, David Boyce wrote:
>At 07:50 AM 1/31/01 -0500, Chris Nandor wrote:
>
>>I've never really thought about this before, but it is an interesting
>>problem and solution. What are the issues involved in "re-executing" a
>>script? How is that re-execution done?
>
>On UNIX it'
David Boyce wrote:
> > How is that re-execution done?
>
> On UNIX it's straightforward: "exec $^X ,$0, @ARGV" out of a BEGIN clause.
> On Windows I do "exit system $^X ,$0, @ARGV",
Huh? exec() works! At least on some versions of Windows.
> though since Perl's system()
> always exposes its
At 07:50 AM 1/31/01 -0500, Chris Nandor wrote:
>I've never really thought about this before, but it is an interesting
>problem and solution. What are the issues involved in "re-executing" a
>script? How is that re-execution done?
On UNIX it's straightforward: "exec $^X ,$0, @ARGV" out of a BEG
At 21:34 -0500 01.30.2001, David Boyce wrote:
>I just threw together a little module currently named Env::Reject and would
>like a review of the name and concept. In particular, if there's a
>different/better solution than re-execing with a depleted environment I'd
>appreciate hearing about it. I'
